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Blogroll Open Enrollment Day!

This worked fairly well last time around, so let’s try it again. If you’d like to have your blog on the Pharyngula blogroll, here’s what you should do:

Examine your blog with a critical eye. If you are espousing creationism, Intelligent Design creationism, the beauty of unthinking acceptance of your Lord and Master Jesus Christ or Mohammed or L. Ron Hubbard, or have a Bush in ’08 badge on your site, don’t bother. Really, you don’t want to draw my attention to you. You probably don’t like me, anyway.

There is a technical limitation. I manage my blogroll with my newsreader, so I can only see sites that have some kind of syndication feed. Most do, nowadays, but if you’ve got some obscure code you’re using to generate your blog, you might not. Static web pages also usually do not. Sorry, I just don’t have a good way around this right now.

Take a look at the current blogroll, and make sure you aren’t already on it. It’s so embarrassing to raise your hand and say “Me, me, me!” and discover that you were picked a long time ago. It would also be polite to check out a few of those other blogs while you’re skimming the list — the point of the blogroll is to send some traffic to other places, after all.

After leaping all those tremendous hurdles, leave a comment here, with a link to your blog. You can just type the url into your comment, or if you want to show off your amazing html skills, you can imbed a link, like so: <a href=”http://my.blog.url/”>My Blog!</a>. Easy! You might also want to describe what’s special about your blog, so other readers might be enticed to check it out. Regular readers or people already on my blogroll might be reading the comments to pick up interesting new blogs, too.

Write out a check for $100 and send it to… Uh, never mind. There are no catches to this, you don’t even have to link back to me. Just write good stuff.

As before, I make no promises to keep you on the blogroll, and in particular, I ruthlessly purge blogs that fail to update for over a month.

Now let’s hope the response isn’t quite as overwhelming as last time. Haven’t I already linked to most of the blogosphere already?

Eh, what the hey, I wouldn’t mind a link. My blog is Confessions of an Anonymous Coward; basically it’s about my coming to terms with the complete lack of any good reason to believe in God, after having been raised in the Mormon church, though there are also some general posts on religion, atheism, and skepticism that don’t necessarily relate directly to my own experiences and situation.

On a related note, I’m really starting to like the variations upon the Randall Munroe (xkcd) malapropism blag. It gives you blaggregation,blagnet and so forth. Anybody can put RSS feeds in their news reader; Real Men use a blaggregator.

You might be interested in Lakeshore, my blog. I’m a science fiction and fantasy author and godless liberal.

On my blog I cover the professional end of the science fiction and fantasy field (ie, topics of interest to working and aspiring writers and editors), leftie/progressive politics, gun control, Creationism/ID, cool science, weird science, photography and miscellaneous personal topics. I’ve got a pretty solid daily readership, and have been ranked as one of the top 25 SF blogs in the world by John Scalzi, who maybe knows what he’s talking about.

Also, I sent you some really cool squid art in the lettermail last year, in the form of a copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s THE EXCHANGE. (And freshwater squid are mentioned in my most recent novel.)

I cover the rational and irrational, science and religion and in particular the ID situation in the UK. This includes an occasional commentary on UK developments in ID – like today’s post will be – and my tussle’s and jolly adventures with various YEC types on this side of the pond with all our state religion, state funded faith schools yet strangely non religious vagaries.

Want the latest bits of weirdness from the Godless (and loving it) land of Sweden? Want a twisted perspective on the daily happenings of life from an Irishman in exile? Want a merciless hammering of pseudo-science, organised religion and idiocy in general?

Pharyngula worked for me! In just 27 minutes on the Pharyngula blogroll program I gained pounds of muscle, lost the fat, ate whatever I wanted, and was able to freeze Mormons in their tracks with a glance from my newly glowing eyeballs!

And the tentacles? Fahgeddaboudit! They are so useful around the house– now I can easily clean hard to reach places, win the big prize in Skee Ball, and play four pianos at the same time while mixing cocktails for all my new friends!

Yes, I’m the envy of the neighborhood, and I owe it all to Pharyngula’s open enrollment program– a mysterious blend of 42 herbs and spices that kicks my blog up a notch. BAM! That’s not just blogging enthusiasm, it’s the sound of my screen door hitting a Jehovah’s Witness in the ass!

I’m sad. I got enblogrollerated, and couldn’t find it, and wept piteously to PZ, who pointed out, “hey dummy, you’re on there, get over it” in nicer terms, then to my horror i noted that i had posted my main page instead of the XML feed! oh the harrah! I can only hope Babyfight will be given a second chance.

This is a group blog on… philosophy and bioethics. It is basically intended as a webpage for the philosophy and bioethics network which is part of the International Association of Bioethics. We are particularly interested in the relationship between philosophy and bioethics, but more generically talk about all issues to do with bioethics.

Nothing special, just a hodge-podge personal blog of a three-year Pharyngula regular. Movie and book reviews, college sports, some evolution stuff, with a dash of politics, all tied up with a big red ribbon of quiet, sligtly random goofiness. I’ll be posting some of my old musicology papers in the next few weeks, though. One of them is already up.

I’m starting a doctoral neuroscience program in the fall, and that was the impetus behind starting my blog. In addition to neuroscience specifically, I discuss general science as it relates to religion and parenting issues. Oh, and anything else I feel like talking about.

Ok, why not “put myself out there?” The worst that can happen is a broken heart… right?

My blog (Eclectic Esoteric) is mostly related to my experiences with pharmacy school, but anything goes. In any case, this is rather timely, since my most recent post is asking for advice from the scientific research community (I have an interview tomorrow for acceptance into a dual degree program). Any comments would be appreciated–I feel like I need all the help I can get!

Framed. Some time ago, PZ, you linked to a post of mine on how I am a single-issue voter on the subject of evolution. Most of my posts are about politics from a liberal (but not doctrinaire) perspective. Thanks!

Where else can you go for commentary on food, hockey, television, occasional rants on religion, and movies from a gluttonous curmudgeon and “D” List Blogger. Also some reprints of old satire I wrote years ago under various pseudonyms.

The One With Aldacron — gratuitous bashing of religion, those who practice it, and those who pretend to practice it, sprinkled with liberal doses of rants about conservative idiots. Oh, with a dash of tales of life as an expat in Korea. For flavor.

Blog pointing out hypocrisy in the MSM and trying to end for profit sensationalism as demonstrated by the recent episode with NBC News, Steve Capus and the Cho manifesto. We will demonstrate how the MSM cause more problems to occur by their choices of what to air, and also what problems they don’t help to solve because of their omissions.

Secret Project HALIBUT is more of a personal blog than a political or professional one; I have recipes, complaints about software I’m forced to use at work, and boring-ass anecdotes about my day. Also, sometimes I post photos.

Just started this blog. We’re hitting from two fronts: I’m biology, and my partner-in-crime is anthropology of religion. If we decide to obey Gestalt principles, then the whole should be more than the sum of our parts.

At my blog, The Opinion Mill, I write about politics and society, but my layman’s interest in science (and the relentless Bushie war against reason) often has me posting about science-related topics. Here’s an example:

My blog is very imaginatively titled. It covers technology (web stuff), politics and what I call “anti-stupid” (because there sure be a lot of stupid out there – today’s stupid is “angels”, but other stupid I cover includes Intelligent Design/creationism, religion, alternative medicine and postmodernism/de/con/re/structuralism or whatever it likes to call itself).

I’ve got a long article I’m working on which will be called something like ‘Popular Fallacies for a Postmodern World’, which I’m having tremendous fun with.

The Baliset Palimpsest is a blog committed to ensuring those faculties of rationality endowed to us are not wasted. Young Earth Creationism is dissected. Programs like SETI that broaden humanity’s outlook, raising them from the medievalism of the past, are promoted. The author is Christian, but enjoins those with religious faith to angrily reject frauds like Ken Ham and Kent Hovind.

How about Hypnocrites? You’ve featured a couple of my cartoons, which are usually political, but often include shots at creationism, global warming deniers, and other anti-science elements of this Administration. Or Left ‘Toon Lane, a cartoon site that carries Hypnocrites and other lefty cartoons.

No way can I top post #23 – won’t even try.
Mine is about teaching high school biology – it’s not all biology-oriented, but I do blog about fighting to teach my kids good biology.
Today, AP Bio – tomorrow, the world!

Essential Saltes is my journal. I won’t flatter it by calling it a blog. Minutiae of my life mixed with trenchant commentary on the news, spiced with insanity, LARPing, games, science, and other trivialities.

I’d like to put in a plug for The Oil Drum. It’s not about atheism or liberalism, though we do have an almost-religious attitude of disrespect for both cornucopian trolls and doomers. Jerome à Paris of dKos posts there regularly; I get in the occasional note.

Don’t let the name fool you, I run an atheist website that deals with science, art, ethics and other fun stuff. I also have a daily web comic that is sometimes funny. I am pretty open minded = I’m not very militant, but I am full of sh .. opinions.

I know I’m late posting this, but it was half laid off work today. Sympathy?

Pro war, anti Bush (such a disappointment), convinced the religious could use some educating in the fine art of critical thinking, and wish to God that God was more open with His rare and maddeningly vague hints. (Far too keen on where and how, but not so hot on why. :D )

Like therapsids and other mammal-like reptiles, am puzzled by the mess that is our current knowledge of early human evolution, and am intrigued by the possibilty that multituberculates may not be true mammals, and that the split between mammals and reptiles may have occurred as far back as the labyrinthodont amphibians.

I blog what I bloody well feel like.

I don’t agree with you on everything, and I don’t expect you to agree with me on everything. Who you link to and why is your business. I link to you because I think you’re worth visiting and posting comments to.

I’d love to be linked from your site. Quite the honour. My site is called The Flying Trilobite. I am an oil painter and I have been inspired by evolution and biology to create my paintings. I post at least once a week.

Please add The Atheist Experience. You’ve picked up stories from us before. This is a blog maintained by hosts and producers of The Atheist Experience, a weekly call-in cable access show produced in Austin, Texas.

PZ, you might want to link my blog at agylen.com, or even better my “skeptic” category where I try to poke fun at believers and religiosos, with a keen eye on Catholics, which tend to be particularly obnoxious here in Italy.

The tales of an ordinary girl – I write about atheism, religion, woo, idiot banana creationists, and assorted geeky subjects such as video games and the DRM. I also occasionally post book, music, and movie reviews.

Hey PZ, check out my blog!!
My specialty involves trolling the comments section of my local newspaper’s site and chewing out the fundies! Maximum snarkiness! I even promise to throw in a Buffy reference or two!

Hopefully not too late here. I’m the Counter Monkey, and I blog about whatever the hell interests me on a sporadic basis. I read several scienceblogs daily, and while the general focus of my blog is on life as a low-paid retail employee, lately I’ve been doing mainly booklogs and links to various interesting Youtube videos and the like.

But if a daily cephalopod link will get me some blogroll action, I’m not above changing focus slightly. Tentacle porn anyone?

Lifelong Activist, http://www.lifelongactivist.com please – under Lefties. Discusses leftwing politics and also the joys and challenges of activism. Also time management and beating procrastination and blocks to success.

I’m sure I’m too late: but I’ve just started a new blog a couple of days ago: Duo Quartuncia. So far I only have six articles. One is on dionsaur fossils, and I have a followup planned on the evolution of wings. One is on the “Darwin is dead” carnival; which is dead. The others are on maths, astronomy, blogname, and stephen hawking. I have Pharyngula on my blogroll, so if you notice a spike in traffic, …

O.k., I think I dropped the ball and may have missed the deadline on this one. Technically, I could probably just manifest smack dab in the middle of your blogroll, but that would be cheating. So please consider adding the Mother of God of your own free will.

Later than all the other late people, but I’m throwing my 2 cents into the hat regardless: Hoyden About Town. Two Down Under women discuss life, laughs, feminism, science, progressive politics, disability, and foiling diabolical masterminds.

Hopefully my blog might be interesting to some – not technically atheist (more agnostic), but it hopefully has some interesting posts for everyone! It’s a collection of my ideas about other things currently going on in the atheist/religious blogosphere, and some of my own thoughts about the path that led me to my current ideas.

We cannot prove there isn’t a God but we do know that the God of Judaism, Christianity, & Islam is based on the perceptions and myths of a nomadic ancient Middle Eastern tribe and should be viewed critically – as should the holy books of these religions. This blog attempts to critically, but respectfully, address issues with religious ideologies, especially Christianity, while introducing our readers to atheism. If you are a deconverted or skeptical Christian, you may find these discussions interesting.